Colin Hay
Colin Hay
Colin James Hayis a Scottish Australian musician and actor who made his mark during the 1980s as lead vocalist of the Australian band Men at Work, and later as a solo artist. Hay's music has been frequently used by actor and director Zach Braff in his work, subsequently leading to a career rebirth in the mid-2000s...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth29 June 1953
CountryAustralia
careers erratic minutes
I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?
years people perception
I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.
want
You don't want to get worse at something.
fun writing men
It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.
believe records dont-believe
I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that.
beautiful rain sky
In Scotland, beautiful as it is, it was always raining. Even when it wasn't raining, it was about to rain, or had just rained. It's a very angry sky.
writing thinking always-trying
As you get older you don't want to just do the same thing, otherwise there's not much point. I think it's more or less trying to write things that, perhaps, say more by doing less, or you're always trying to refine things, make things a little simpler, a little more essential.
jesus talking
I tried talking to Jesus, but he just put me on hold...
character soul lines
There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.
running strong people
It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.
trying get-better want
Sometimes there's a general arc that you want to try and get better the longer you do something.
years dust goes-on
I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing.
mean years careers
I had a very strange career. I mean I went from playing to 150,000 people in 1983/84. Three or four years later I was playing to four people, you know, in Melbourne. I thought - bit strange, you know bit odd, bit erratic.
drinking used shows
I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows.